Can’t Afford to Eat? Blame the Greens! By Richard Miller (London)
Things are tough here in Britain, and are likely to get tougher. At a time of a fuel crisis, and looming food shortages, due to the attack upon farming, the Conservative Party, in name only, has implemented the Extended Producer Responsibility net zero scheme, which will subsidise the recycling of packaging to be imposed at the supermarket. The increase in food bills for the long-suffering British public will be to the order of £4 billion per year. The vice-like squeeze is now being placed upon the British public, no doubt as part of the globalist plan to depopulate the country. Green ideologies have supplied the useful idiot front for these programs. No-one cares about the environment; it is all a naked power grab.
“Net zero taxes on groceries concocted by the Conservative Party will increase food bills for the British public by an estimated £4 billion per year, retailers have warned the government.
Rather than seeking to ease the burden of Britons, who have suffered under crippling inflation over the past two years following the state-imposed coronavirus lockdowns, the government is intent on taking more money out of their pocket with a series of taxes to subsidise the recycling of packaging to be imposed at the supermarket.
The so-called Extended Producer Responsibility net zero scheme developed by the seemingly ineradicable government fixture Michael Gove during his stint as environment secretary was originally estimated by the government to cost consumers around £1.7 billion, however, retailers have now said that due to inflation it will likely be over double that.
Speaking to The Telegraph, the British Retail Consortium said that the green tax, which rather than hitting businesses will be passed onto the public, who will likely see their groceries bills increase by £140 per year, with an overall cost of £4 billion per year.
The chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, Helen Dickinson said: “Over the next year or so a raft of new regulations and taxes will burden retailers – and ultimately consumers – with higher costs. Just as inflation looks to be turning a corner, these new policies put this at peril. The Government needs to look at these in turn, and consider whether to implement, postpone or scrap each one.”
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